Cleaning implement.



PATENTED NOV. 15,, 1904.

J. DETTMER.

CLEANING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1.1904.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

N0 MODBLV INVENTOR:

PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904.

J. DETTMER.

CLEANING IMPLEMENT.

APPLIGA'HON FILED JUNE 1.1904.

2 BHEETB-SHBIIT 2v N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES:

INVENTOR:

UNITED STATES Patented November 15, 1904.

JULIET DETTMER, OF NEVARK, NEvV JERSEY.

CLEANING IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 775,077, dated November15, 1904.

Application filed June 1, 1904. Serial No. 210,651. (No model.)

To It whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JULIET DETTMER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CleaningImplements; and I do hereby declare the following to'be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to numerals ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to provide an apparatus or deviceadapted to facilitate the cleaning of the outside of a window-pane fromthe inside of a room or building, to'more effectually avoid the fatigueand danger in volved in sitting on the window-sill with the body on theoutside of the window while cleaning said window-pane, to enable theoperator working from the inside to see clearly the results of the work,to provide a cleaning implement which will be of light weight and easyof manipulation, to enable a greater area to be conveniently worked uponon the outside of the window, and to secure other advantages andresults, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection withthe description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved cleaning implement or apparatusand in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, allsubstantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced inthe clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals ofreference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures,Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved implement, the upper endofwhich is broken away and partly in section. Fig. 2 is a detail face Viewof the handle thereof. Figs. 3 and 4 are front and side elevations indetail of a clamp or grip which may be employed in connection with thebody of my implement. Fig. 5 is a plan of a squeegee which may beemployed in a modified construction. Fig. 6 shows in front elevation thehead of the implement, on an enlarged scale, in its preferredconstruction. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 8 is adetail thereof, showing certain pointed terminals of the wire, whichserve in holding the cleaning-cloth in place, and a brush which may beused for cleaning out corners.

In said drawings, 10 indicates the handle of the improved implement, 11the shank, and 12, 13, 14, and 15 the curvilinear body of the device.The said handle and body consist of a single piece of wire which iscentrally bent double, as at 101, the open loop 102, formed by doubling,being of a size convenient to be grasped by the hand to enable the saidimplement to pe readily controlled in the cleaning operations. At theshank 11 the wire extensions 111 111 are brought together, as shown inFigs. 1 and 2, and the said extensions from said shank to the head ofthe device are twisted together, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to form acomparatively rigid, though somewhat resilient, body upon whichsuificient pressure maybe brought without bending to enable the cleaningoperations to be conducted. At the shank 11 the twisted wire is bent, asat 12, to lie in a position approximately parallel with the handle whenviewed in side elevation, the said extension 12, however, flaring alittle from the handle and to the point 13 where the curved body turnsupward, as at 1 1, and forms a deep recess 17, into which the lower edgeof the open sash may enter. The curvature of the doubled wire at thebottom of the recess 13 is a continuation of the curvatures of the parts13 and 1 1, so that said recess 17 is abroad one, permitting when thebottom rail of the sash is therein a very free movement of the cleaningimplement in the plane of its parts 12 13 1 1, and thus the operator isenabled to clean all parts of the window-pane, both at the top and atthe bottom thereof, with great convenience and without interference withthe window-sill, which would occur, so as to prevent or greatlyinterfere with a proper cleaning, were the recess 17 narrow and theparts 12 and 1 1 disposed on parallel lines. At the upper end of thebody the same curves forward toward the line of the handle 10, and atits extremity 15 the said body is provided with means for engaging andcleansing the outside surface of the window pane or sash. These meansmay be the spring-actuated, grasping-jaws 18, (shown in Figs. 3 and 1,)adapted to grip a wash-cloth or other device, or a squeegee 181, such asshown in Fig. 5, or, preferably, the two extensions of the twisted bodymay be further extended and bent, as shown more clearly in Figs. 6, 7,and 8, to form the head 16, which head preferably consists of twointegral frames 20, each of which is formed from one of the extensions111, being bent laterally back and forth in sinuous course to form saidframe, the back and forth extensions 201 of the frame beingapproximately parallel and in front elevation, as in Fig. 6, beinghorizontally perpendicular to the plane of the curved body. Theextensions 201 terminate in sharpened points 21, on which the washcloth,stretched across the fiat front face 22, Fig. 7, of the frames, iscaught and held under tension, the said points 21 lying behind theframes 20, so as not to interfere with or damage the woodwork of thewindow.

In connection with the frames I may employ brushes, squeegee, or otherdevices adapted to enter the corners of the sashes, so that the panesmay be cleaned thereat. When a brush or brushes 23 is employed, it maybe inserted in the coil 24;. I prefer to secure it at the outer cornerof the frame, as indicated in Figs. 6 and 8.

In operating the device the user holding the implement by the handle andstanding within the room thrusts the curved body of the implementoutward, so that the framelike head carrying the cleasing cloth or ragbears against the outside surface of the window, and because of thedepth of the recess 17 in which the bottom rail of the sash may enter,the surface of the panes may be thoroughly and effectively cleansed, thecleaning operation being in open view through the glass.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. Theimproved sash-cleaning implement herein described, comprising a handle10, a curved body extending from said handle in curved linesin adirection approximatelypaln allel with said handle, then at right anglesthereto, then again approximately parallel, in curved lines, with saidhandle, and at its end distant from said handle, bent forward toward theline of said handle and at its forward extremity having a wash-clothcleaning device formed and lying near the line of the handle butdistanttherefrom, the said parts being in one integral piece of wire, and thehandle comprising an open loop and a body with twisted oppositeextensions of said wire.

2. The improved cleaning implement herein described comprising a handle,and a curved body bent in a direction approximately parallel with thehandle and then laterally away from saidhandle, then again approximatelyparallel with the line of the handle and toward said line and at itsextremity having cleaning means, substantially as set forth.

3. The improved cleaningimplement herein described comprising a singlepiece of wire bent and forming an open loop for a handle and having itsopposite extensions at one end of the handle twisted together to form abody, said twisted wire of said body being curved laterally from thehandle, then returned in a line approximately parallel with the handle,then substantially at right angles to the handle, then againapproximately parallel with the handle, and then bent toward the line ofthe handle at a point above the lateral curve first referred to, and atits extremity having the extensions bent into the form of a frame overwhich the washing-cloth may be secured, substantially as set forth.

1. A cleaning implement having wire extensions twisted together and attheir ends being each repeatedly and independently bent back and forthto form a frame, substantially as set forth.

5. A cleaning implement having wire extensions twisted together and attheir ends being each independently and repeatedly bent back and forthto form a frame, said extensions terminating in pointed pins on whichthe washcloth may be fixed, substantially'as set forth.

6. A cleaning implement having wire extensions twisted together and attheir ends being each independently bent back and forth to form acloth-supporting frame,said extensions at their ends being bent into theform of coils and having their extremities pointed to hold the clothacross the face of said frame, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this28th day of May, 190 1.

JULIET DE'ITMER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, RUssELL M. EVERETT.

